License bracket



Dec, 23, 1924.

H. W. TERVVILLIGER LI CENSE BRACKET Filed Aug. 29, 1924 .14 W6 lwuanftozji. Wrw

5 State 0f Pennsylvania,

Patented Dec. 23, 1924.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY WILSON T ERWILLIGER, F ALTOO'NA, PENNSYLVANIA.

LICENSE BRACKET.

Application filed August 29, 1924. Serial No. 735,016.

To all colto/m, it may concern:

Be it known that l, HARRY TW. Tniiwiiinr- GER, a citizen at Altoona,

of the United States, residing in the county of Blair and have inventeda new and useful License Bracket, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to license plate brackets and aims to provide anovel forin of bracket especially designed for motor trucks or the likefor supporting a license plate in an upright position in a manner toinsure against displacement thereof.

An important object of the invention is to provide a bracket of thischaracter which will permit of lateral adjustment thereof to adapt thedevice for license plates A still fur use in supporting of variouslengths. ther object of the invention is to provide a license platesupport which will securely position.

hold a license plate in an upright lVith the foregoing and other objectsin view which will appear as proceeds, the bination and the descriptioninvention resides in the comarrangement of parts and in the details ofconstruction hereinafter described and that changes the invention withinthe scope of claimed, it being understood in the precise embodiment ofherein disclosed, may be made what is claimed, without departing fromthe spirit of the invention.

Referring to the drawing:

Figure 1 is a disclosing a fraginental perspective view bracketconstructed in accordance with the invention as secured to a motorvehicle.

Figure Q is a front elevational view theren Figure o is a sectional viewtaken on line tion.

Figure 6 is a transverse sectional view through one Referring motortruck to which the bracket is is provided forms a part struction.

members.

detail, the applied, with a forward bar 5 which of the usual motor truckconof the hook a to the drawing in The bracket in its preferred formincludes opposed secti sections are ons 6 and 7 respectively, whichformed with enlargements S that are provided with slots 9 to. receiveportions of the lower edge of the license plate supported therein.

The section 6 is provided with an elongated opening in which the rib maymove, the rib 10 carried by the section 7, being designed to. restrictlateral movement of one section with respect to the other section. Anopening extends through each of the enlargements 8, which openingsregister with suitable openings formed in the bar 5 of the truck toaccommodate the securing rods 11 formed with hook portions 12 at theirupper ends, which hook portions have knife-like edges 13 formed thereinto cut into. the upper edge of the license plate positioned under thehook members.

As clearly illustrated by Figure 3 of the drawing, the rods 11 areformed with threaded lower extremities 14E that accominodate the nut-s15 so that the rods may be drawn into close engagement with the licenseplate to hold the license plate within the slots 9.

In the form of the invention as illustrated by Figure 5 of the drawing,the rods 16 are provided with hook portions 17 at their upper ends, the.lower ends of the rods being extended at right angles and threadedwhereby the saine may be positioned in openings formed in the frontwallsof the usual bracing bar forming a part of the motor truck construction.

In order that the license plate will be held securely within thebracket, nuts 18 are provided and engage under the enlargements 19 ofthe support for holding a license plate in position.

From the foregoing, that due to this construction, a license bracket isprovided which license bracket may be adjusted to adapt it for use inconnection with license plates of various sizes.

I claiin:-

1. A license plate bracket including opposed sections, one of saidsections having an elongated opening, the opposite section having a ribdisposed in t-he opening to permit of lateral adjustment of the sectionswith respect to each other, and securing rods having hooks at theirupper ends, and having connection with the sections for securing thesections to a motor vehicle frame.

2. A license plate posed sections, said it will be. obvious l receivethe lower edge of a. license plate,

securing rods having hooks7 extending through the respective sectionsfor* securing the sect-ions to the frame of a motor vehicle, and saidlhook members having knife-like portions adapted to bite into the upperedge of a license plate.

3. In a license plate holder., a pair of laterally adjustable supportingmembers having slots in their upper surfaces, said slots adapted toaccommodate the lower edge of a license plate, securing rods havinghooks embracing portions of the license plate, and said rods adapted toyextend through the supporting members to `secure the supporting membersto the frame oi a motor vehicle.

In testimony thatr I claim the foregoing as my own, I have heretoaffixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

HARRY WILSON TERWILLIGER.

Witnesses:

R. O. NEGLEY, W. J. DEGENHARDT.

